Predicting Dimensional Deviations of Structural Vehicle Body Parts Deep Drawn from Aluminum Blanks

Modern car-body design entails increasing requirements for the dimensional accuracy of outer car-body panels. However, tolerance limits to be met in this regard are based on specifications from component engineering aimed at ensuring dimensional accuracy of the product, less on real structural springback behaviour of outer car-body panels. Process-reliable tolerance limits for outer car-body panels can be characterized by a bandwidth in springback variation caused by fluctuations in material characteristics and process parameters during production. Differences between assumptions from component engineering and real structural springback behaviour of outer car-body panels thus leads to avoidable iterative corrections in die manufacturing and following processes. Therefore, the goal of this research work presented in this paper is to predict springback variation potentially occurring during production already in the virtual design stage of a car-body and hence set process-reliable tolerance limits. Stochastic sheet metal forming simulation is used for prediction of springback variation. Here, deterministic multi-stage springback simulation of a sidewall panel is extended by stochastic variation of material properties and process parameters. Simulation results are validated by measurement reports from series production. Results presented show strong fit in characteristics of springback variation between stochastic simulation and series measurement reports. In future, stochastic simulation results can be fed back into component engineering, making die manufacturing and following joining and assembly processes more effective.

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Predicting Dimensional Deviations of Structural Vehicle Body Parts Deep Drawn from Aluminum Blanks

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Predicting springback variation and process-reliable tolerance limits of outer car-body panels by stochastic sheet metal forming simulation

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